Adding packages to buildroot directly from updates-testing

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 12/16/2010 03:35 PM, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to propose a small(ish) change to how updates to Fx and Fx-1 work.
>
> Currently we have to wait until package gets to stable for it to appear
> in buildroot. IMO this goes against the whole "testing" part of
> updates-testing. I'd like for packages to appear in buildroot as soon as
> they are in updates-testing. Reasoning:
>
>   * Building deps is part of testing. If anything fails ->  package
>     should be withdrawn from testing and not pushed.
>
> There are a few corner-cases I could think of where this approach could
> cause a bit of headaches, but in those cases even current process
> wouldn't help us much IMO.
>
> Any opinions on this?

+1, I had proposed somethings similar long time ago, but it was shot 
down, then.

Ralf